Improvement in temporary binders



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES BENNET, OFS'I. JOHNS, CANADA.

IMPROVEMENT IN TEMPORARY BINDERS.

Specification forming pari of Leiters Patent No. 152,453, dated June S0,187.4; application tiled April 11, 1874.

To all whom it may concern: p

Be it known that I, JAMES BENNET, of St. Johns, in the Province of NewBrunswick and Dominion of Canada, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Temporary Binders, of which the following is aspecification: Y

The object of this invention is to provide means for preserving, in asafe and convenient manner, papers of all descriptions, as letters,invoices, bills, and all similar papers, as well as newspapers,hand-bills, and cards, and all simi-lar printed matter; and it consistsin a tile which opens and closcs upon the principle ot' the parallelruler,77 constructed as hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawing', Figure 1 represents a side view ot' thetile. Fig. 2 isa top or plan view.

Similarletters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This iile consists of a bed-piece, A, which rests on the table when thepaper is inserted, a clamp,B,of corresponding length, two jointbars, CC, by which the parts A B are connected, and the pointed holding-pins DD. These pins may be attached to the bed-piece A in any suitable manner,so as to stand irm and rigid, and perpendicular to the bed-piece. Inthis example of my invention I fasten a metallic strip, E, on top of thebed-piece Recesses G are made in the bed to admit disks H under themetallic strip, and disks I are placed on top of the strip,screw-threads are cut on the pins, and the disks serve as screwnuts,into the center of which the pinsiare screwed, one disk-nut being belowand vone above the strip for each pin. The screw threads are cut thewhole length of the pins, and the roughened surface thus producedprevents the papers from too easily slipping up when the clamp israised. J J are mortises through the clamp B, which receive the pins D Dwhen the clamp is pressed down in ilin g.

Then the clamp is raised for filing, the bars C C serve as guides forthe edge of the paper, so that the back edges ot' the papers liledpresent an even and uniform appearance. By means of the joint-bars thebed A and the clamp B work together the same as the two parts of aparallel ruler.

It is obvious thata quant-ity of papers thus filed, may be securelybound by taking the lower dislmuits ofi' and screwing them onto the topsof the pins, and then supplying other y pins for the bed-plate or otherpins, wires, or strings, may be inserted through the holes made in thepapers, as may be deemed best.

Havin thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Iat- 'entl. rlhe combination, with a paper-file bed andclamp, ot' bars C C, pins D D, strip E, and nuts l H, as and for thepurpose speciied.

2. The metallic strip E, disk-nuts I and H, and holding-pins D I), incombination with the bed and clamp yof a paper-file', as shown anddescribed.

April 1, 1874.

JAMES BENNET. Iitnessesz H. W. FRITII, I. A. KINNEAR.

